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Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
The Islamic da’wa was badly affected as it has been carried out by people who concentrate on the appearance rather than the core of religion. Islam will not benefit from people who travel to Europe and America wearing short white gallabiyas, sitting on the ground licking their fingers after having...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The November 23 article of Al-Musawwar, "Is the West still Dar Kufr," resulted four days later (November 28) in a campaign by the US Copts Association against the use of the word kuffar for Christians. The association claims that calling someone a ’kafir’ [’kafir’ is the singular of ’kufar’] is a...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The book "The New Crusader War" mentioned a fatwa to the effect that if the murderer of the innocent people in America is a Muslim, he has to pay half the diyya [compensation money] to the families of murdered Muslims and nothing more. Usama Bin Laden expressed the same opinion when he was asked...
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2001
The article sheds light on the Hodaybeia peace treaty, which the republican representative of California, Tom Lantos attacked. The Azhar scholar stressed that in the Hodaybeia treaty, Mohammed made many political sacrifices in order to prove to the Jews that he did not desire war but peace.
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
There had been an aggressive campaign in the Egyptian press in general accusing emigrant Copts of being spies for America and western countries. The World Center for Human Rights calls for all those in charge to stop all this type of news that damages social unity and stabilityAccording to a press...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
The French Champollion School dismissed a student for wearing a veil while attending the school. Later, the court ordered her to go back to school. A few days ago, the general assembly of the school decided to allow students to wear veils while attending the school, as Egypt is an Islamic country...
Date of source: Saturday, June 30, 2001
Muslim leaders in Europe demanded the destruction of a fresco picturing Mohammed naked while an angel prepares to torture him. The Italian Muslims’ Union sent statements to Pope John Paul II expressing their annoyance about the fresco on a wall in a Bologna Cathedral.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom asked President Bush to raise religious-freedom issues with President Mubarak during the latter’s state visit to the United States. The request follows the return of a Commission delegation from a visit to Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, March 25, 2001
The Religious Freedom Commission is not a non-governmental organization. It is an official committee financed by the United States Federal Government. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom [USCIRF] was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 27 January 1998,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2001 to Friday, March 30, 2001
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.